Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 427 443
Rank change year-on-year -78 +16 +45
Contract jobs citing Packer 43 50 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.85% 1.30% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 30 83
10th Percentile £450 £491 £413
25th Percentile £504 £538 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £713 £523
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +36.36% -12.92%
75th Percentile £632 £747 £576
90th Percentile £716 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £640 £506
% change year-on-year -6.25% +26.42% -16.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £76.53

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,083 3,861 4,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.49% 14.71% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,524 2,498 3,489
10th Percentile £312 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 47 157
10th Percentile £17.67 £14.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.49 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -39.43% -5.11%
75th Percentile £63.32 £61.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.66 £76.92
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +11.18%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

Packer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -28 19 £649 +9.03% 1
South West - 9 £450 - 4
North of England -64 7 £525 -27.59% 1
Yorkshire -63 5 £518 -28.62%
North West -30 2 £613 -18.33% 1
South East - 2 £435 - 4
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (37.21%) Confluence
2 14 (32.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) AWS
2 20 (46.51%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (23.26%) GitHub
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (16.28%) Entra ID
4 7 (16.28%) IaaS
4 7 (16.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (13.95%) Azure
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (9.30%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.98%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (6.98%) Route 53
8 3 (6.98%) Serverless
9 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.26%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) DHCP
2 3 (6.98%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) Git
2 16 (37.21%) JIRA
3 12 (27.91%) GitLab
4 11 (25.58%) Jenkins
5 6 (13.95%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (27.91%) Public Sector
2 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Lead
6 5 (11.63%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (11.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (9.30%) Scrum Master
7 4 (9.30%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Kafka Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 2 (4.65%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) Kafka
2 6 (13.95%) Keycloak
3 5 (11.63%) AWS CDK
3 5 (11.63%) YAML
4 4 (9.30%) cloud-init
5 3 (6.98%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.65%) Node.js
7 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.30%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (9.30%) PKI
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) CMDB
4 1 (2.33%) NHS
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (76.74%) Linux
2 12 (27.91%) Windows
3 4 (9.30%) CentOS
3 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
3 4 (9.30%) Unix
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) DevOps
2 18 (41.86%) Agile
2 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (39.53%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.63%) GitOps
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (11.63%) Observability
6 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.63%) Scrum
6 5 (11.63%) Security Hardening
7 4 (9.30%) Business Transformation
7 4 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (9.30%) ITIL
7 4 (9.30%) Kanban
7 4 (9.30%) Microservices
7 4 (9.30%) Project Management
7 4 (9.30%) Service Management
7 4 (9.30%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) Python
2 10 (23.26%) Bash
3 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.95%) Go
4 6 (13.95%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.98%) Bicep
6 2 (4.65%) Perl
6 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 35 (81.40%) Security Cleared
2 34 (79.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.65%) Degree
6 1 (2.33%) CCA
6 1 (2.33%) CCNA
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (48.84%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (86.05%) Terraform
2 24 (55.81%) Kubernetes
3 22 (51.16%) Ansible
4 14 (32.56%) Consul
5 5 (11.63%) Grafana
5 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 4 (9.30%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (9.30%) Nessus
7 3 (6.98%) Podman
7 3 (6.98%) Proxmox
8 2 (4.65%) Fluentd
9 1 (2.33%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Splunk
1 9 (20.93%) VMware
2 4 (9.30%) Okta
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat